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Luis Andueza (King’s College): Value, Struggle, and the Production of Nature. Jason W. Moore (Binghamton): The Rise of Cheap Nature. Benjamin Kunkel reviewsThe Birth of the Anthropocene by Jeremy Davies; Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore; and Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm. Ulrich Brand (Vienna): How to Get Out of the Multiple Crisis? Contours of a Critical Theory of Social-Ecological Transformation. Julia M. Puaschunder (New School): Sunny Side Up: From Climate Change Burden Sharing to Fair Global Warming Benefits Distribution: Groundwork on the Metaphysics of the Gains of Global Warming and the Climatorial Imperative; and Climate Policies with Burden Sharing: The Economics of Climate Financing.

Thread: “Going to say again: Putin or Trump don't actually need to have anything on the GOP Congress to force their complicity”. Who stopped McCarthy? Sam Tanenhaus on what the history of Republican infighting can teach us today. National Review in the wilderness: The magazine was famously “Against Trump”, now it's anti-anti-Trump, and increasingly pro-Trump — what does it stand for now? American Affairs, a new journal sympathetic to the president, makes an uneven debut. Best known for her turn on The Apprentice, Omarosa Manigault — a former Democrat turned “Trumplican” — now holds an important position inside the White House; her rise has sent black Republicans into an existential crisis as they find themselves trying to get a seat at the table. Thousands of furious Trump fans can’t stop visiting a website that pretends Clinton won.

Ivan Boldyrev (HSE) and Ekaterina Svetlova (Leicester): After the Turn: How the Performativity of Economics Matters. The ways that pop economics hurt America: Noah Smith reviewsEconomism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality by James Kwak; and on 5 economics terms we all should use. The curse of Econ 101: When it comes to basic policy questions such as the minimum wage, introductory economics can be more misleading than it is helpful. The wrongest profession: Dean Baker on how economists have botched the promise of widely distributed prosperity — and why they have no intention of stopping now.

From ProPublica, Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu on what Facebook knows about you; and Facebook doesn't tell users everything it really knows about them. Facebook claimed it couldn't possibly sway an election — its own business team thinks otherwise. After Trump, will Twitter wither? The rise of its most famous user, and defection of its top executives, would seem to spell doom for Twitter -- but there may be a silver lining. Why we can't fix Twitter: Social media is broken — when will we realize that we're the problem? The first chapter from #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass Sunstein.